[Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer

[Walter Underwood]

Looking just at CQWW, both CW and SSB participation is increasing. SSB appears to be increasing a bit faster than CW.

http://www.cqww.com/stats.htm

Though I just added to the length of this thread, I expect we are getting off-topic from Elecraft equipment. I tried to add facts and no opinion, but this is my last post on this topic.
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On Feb 6, 2015, at 1:48 PM, brian <alsopb at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Please provide some references for CW contest participation is declining.  My recollection from various magazines is that contest participation #'s are up for all modes ( no reference provided either).
> 
> 73 de Brian/K3KO
> On 2/6/2015 21:38 PM, Larry Libsch wrote:
>>> For those who are so disabled as to require an external "crutch" to
>>> copy their own call and 5NN, it is a simple matter to reverse channels
>>> in the sound card (at most it requires a "reversing cable") to decode
>>> audio on the sub Receiver.
>> 
>>        Ah, the old CW snobbery! When is the notion that paddle or key generated CW is superior to software and keyer generated code going to disappear? You decode RTTY with software, don't you? CW is just another digital mode. Software decoding has brought many new CW ops into CW DXing and contesting. Software encoding is more accurate and allows many ops to achieve speeds they could never otherwise achieve. Perhaps you use a keyer for contesting? Many (most?) contesters do. CW contest participation is declining. RTTY contest participation is increasing. Software is every where improving our lives. Time to give up on old ways and ideas and move into the future.
>> 
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